While most new Monopoly sets desperately try to keep up with the times — swapping cash for credit cards or using circular boards — here's one which celebrates the past. Now you can play the property-trading game while celebrating the life of the father of computer science, Alan Turing. Read More >>
Featured comment by irononreverse:
"I'm still rocking the 1998 Deluxe edition, probably the best one of them all. Tried the Visa card one, too time consuming and fiddly and the themed on..." More »
"What are your favourite Sci Fi movies?" "I like Star Wars and The Matrix," comes the typed reply. I am trying to work out if I'm talking to a "hidden human" in the next room, or actually a machine located somewhere in cyberspace. Read More >>
Featured comment by Southern:
"Slashdot carried this story yesterday and had a number of people posting logs of their conversations. The long and the short of it is that Eugene Goos..." More »
If Alan Turing were still alive today, he would have just turned 100-years-old. That's why Google's paying tribute to the pioneering computer genius with a Google Doodle that simulates the behaviour of a Turning machine. Read More >>
The ideas and methods behind the modern computer were first dreamt up by a Brit way back in 1936. Alan Turing's machine formed the basis for the world's first computer that was used to break the German encryption codes in World War II. Now you can make one yourself out of Lego. Read More >>
Featured comment by lsb143:
"I thought this might have been an instructables... I was looking forward to trying to build it and program it in my computing class (we sometimes use ..." More »
Over 70 years ago, father of computer science Alan Turing developed the techniques which enabled quick and efficient decryption of the Nazis' Enigma-scrambled messages. Now, the secrets behind his techniques — hidden away in research documents since the Second World War — have been declassified. Read More >>
Everyone's favourite historical nerd is going to be immortalised on a stamp, with the Royal Mail's 'Britons of Distinction' series set to feature Mr Computers himself, Alan Turing. Read More >>
Featured comment by dorito:
"WTF - if this is about "Britons of Distinction", then the very least the Royal Mail could do is to actually show the Britons in the flesh; why do it f..." More »
If you have a passing interest in the life of Alan Turing and the innovations he was responsible for, there's some small way you can help -- signing a petition to have him pardoned of his "crime." Read More >>
Featured comment by Calldean:
"Totally agree that what happened was way out of order - wrong on every level.
But (Had to be one didn't there?) the country is being run into the g..." More »
Alan Turing, the venerable WWII-era nerd icon who helped crack the Nazi Enigma machines and came up with the robot sentience-checking Turing Test, is the subject of a new biopic, and apparently Leonardo DiCaprio "has the inside track" to play him. Read More >>
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